Tag: Wings

Wings on My Sleeve The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story


Free Download Wings on My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story By Eric M. Brown
2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0297856901 | EPUB | 6 MB
Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realizing he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. Today, at 87, he is in great demand for interviews on history TV documentaries (twelve in 2005!). He is the only man alive who has flown every major (and most minor) combat aircraft of the Second World War as well as all the early jets. Speaking perfect German, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. He would have been the first man to break the sound barrier, except that the British government cancelled the programme and gave the technology to America. His naval career continues to this day, as he advises on the new aircraft carrier design for the Royal Navy. A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full — from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950s to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.

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Wings of War The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly


Free Download Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly by David Fairbank White, Margaret Stanback White, René Ruiz
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09X98MT3H | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 9 hours and 24 minutes + PDF | 620 Mb
The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible
"Aviation buffs will cheer this high-flying saga."-✅Publishers Weekly "[A] fascinating book about passion and innovation."-Walter Isaacson "An essential book for those who appreciate tales of military bravery, and also for all seeking understanding of decision-making under pressure.A major contribution."-E. J. Dionne, Jr.
When the P-51 Mustang began tearing across European skies in early 1944, the Allies had been losing the air war for years. Staggering numbers of bomber crews, both British and American, had been shot down and killed thanks to the Luftwaffe’s superior fighter force. Not only did the air war appear grim, but any landing of troops in France was impossible while German fighters hunted overhead. But behind the scenes, a team of visionaries had begun to design a bold new type of airplane, one that could outrun and outmaneuver Germany’s best.

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Wings of the Luftwaffe Flying the Captured German Aircraft of World War II (2024)


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Hikoki Publications | 2010 | ISBN: 1902109155 | English | 274 pages | PDF | 296.75 MB
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook that lists a greater variety of aircraft types flown. The first naval officer to head the élite Aerodynamics Flight at the world renowned Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, ‘Winkle’ Brown fulfilled his childhood ambition to fly German aircraft. Indeed, he was to fly no fewer than 55 individual German aircraft types, ranging from such exotic creations as the push-and-pull Dornier Do 335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany’s Third Reich.

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Wings of the Luftwaffe Flying the Captured German Aircraft of World War II (2024)


Free Download Captain Eric Brown – Wings of the Luftwaffe: Flying the Captured German Aircraft of World War II
Hikoki Publications | 2010 | ISBN: 1902109155 | English | 274 pages | PDF | 296.75 MB
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook that lists a greater variety of aircraft types flown. The first naval officer to head the élite Aerodynamics Flight at the world renowned Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, ‘Winkle’ Brown fulfilled his childhood ambition to fly German aircraft. Indeed, he was to fly no fewer than 55 individual German aircraft types, ranging from such exotic creations as the push-and-pull Dornier Do 335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany’s Third Reich.

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A Pair of Silver Wings


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English | 2007 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 0099436469 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
In 1995, Britain is celebrating the anniversary of the end of the war and Edward Enderby finds himself forced to confront the tragedy he suffered during those years, in this story of a man’s quest to heal the scars of the past.

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Walk With Wings


Free Download Tene Edwards, "Walk With Wings"
English | 2018 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1999588908 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
Walk With Wings by Tene Edwards is a poetry collection split into five chapters: Monsoon Love, Winter Sorrow, Autumn Grace, Spring Resilient, and Summer Freedom. In short, poignant verses, Tene’s poems are a compilation of reflections on her experiences, thoughts, and feelings through love, loss, pain, healing and resilience.The collection takes you through the life story of the author while offering advice, notes, and affirmations, which were written to empower the author during difficult times. Walk With Wings tells the story of Tene falling in love, making bad decisions, learning from her mistakes, and discovering how to love her life and herself.

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Dance Spreads Its Wings Israeli Concert Dance 1920-2010


Free Download Ruth Eshel, "Dance Spreads Its Wings: Israeli Concert Dance 1920-2010"
English | ISBN: 3110749610 | 2021 | 500 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily life, including "What do we dance?" because Hebrew or Eretz-Israeli dance had to be created out of none. How and why did dance develop in such a way? Dance Spreads Its Wings is the first and only book that looks at the whole picture of concert dance in Israel studying the growth of Israeli concert dance for 90 years―starting from 1920, when there was no concert dance to speak of during the

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